Orhan Pamuk 2008 Museum of Innocence (Faber)

Traipsing through this museum a hard slog. The narrator’s obsessive love makes the theory of mimetic desire real. A dizzying doubling reflexivity. Read compulsively and reluctantly in patches, taking a breather with other less needy works. Journey done. Cup of tea required.

The beginning of 4,213 cigarette butts (not Fusan's) with no 'date' of 'retrieval'
The beginning of 4,213 cigarette butts (not Fusan’s) with no ‘date’ of ‘retrieval’

 

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Sue Hall Pyke

Writer, dreamer, co-learner